Enough Gaslighting - Trumpism Is Fascism.

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🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Is it okay to call Trump a “fascist”? Is our democracy itself really on the line next month? And what might our legal system look like after a second Trump term? We look behind the headlines to begin to examine the nuances of these questions in this first of several planned episodes on the current state of the American right.

The Anatomy of Fascism, Robert Paxton (2004)
“The Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism,” Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way, Journal of Democracy (April 2002)
They Thought They Were Free (full text), Milton Meyer (1955)
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America, Timothy Snyder (2018)
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia, Peter Pomerantsev (2015)

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0:00.0	Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.
0:07.0	He gags me! What's my crime? I got bold and a little negligent? Nope!
0:23.0	Bales are coming to take away my will to live.
0:28.0	Fuck them, lo!
0:32.0	One count of being a bear, and one count Fuck them though, though.
0:32.5	One count of being a bear, and one count of being an accessory to being a bear.
0:37.5	I hate the Supreme Court.
0:46.4	Hello and welcome to opening arguments. This is episode 1,075.
0:48.4	Oh, what a good number.
0:49.4	It also means that next episode
0:51.1	will have new intro quotes quotes which I already requested on
0:54.8	Patreon.com slash law. I'm Thomas that over there is a real life lawyer
0:58.8	Matt Cameron how you doing? Well Thomas I'm here to talk about fascism so it's a you know a little good little bad.
1:04.3	fascism where? First I'm hearing about this. Yeah no this was an episode or a series I think that I'm really
1:12.2	excited about Matt pitched and I thought it was perfect because for as much as we all talk about the obvious fascism of Donald Trump and MAGA and a lot of people why they are actually fascist
1:23.2	why Donald Trump and the movement is a fascist movement in a what
1:27.5	met a technical sense I'm sure it's not a legal sense but is there a legal
1:31.4	definition of fascism now maybe?
1:32.8	The law is certainly involved.
1:34.1	I'm going to talk about the nuance of it too,
1:35.6	because I think we lose a lot of nuance
1:37.1	when we use this kind of language,
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